Myth #20: If I use SSL to send emails nobody can peek into my emails

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Posted By: ImproveYourSecurity February 13, 2014

It is true that if you connect to the email server via SSL (actually, using the SMTPS protocol) nobody can peek into your email… until they reach the server.

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Usually, email servers connect to each other via SMTP, without encryption. And this is the problem as the connection between them is plain text and anybody can read the content.

The only secure way to make sure that only you and the intended recipient is to encrypt the email. Of course, you need to encrypt the email using PKI so that the recipient can have the possibility to decrypt it.

 

All these and many more topics are in the free eBook "Improve your security" available here: www.improve-your-security.org.

About the Author

ImproveYourSecurity
Sorin Mustaca, (ISC)2 CSSLP, CompTIA Security+ and Project+, is working since 2000 in the IT Security industry and until 2014 for Avira as Product Manager, where he was responsible for the known products used by over 100 million users world-wide. Serving the security needs of so many different users made him think that there are other ways of to help the users: teachning them about security.

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